SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Commodity prices continued to move up in recent weeks amid rising crude oil prices and the outbreak of the avian influenza, industry sources said Tuesday. Consumer prices rose 1.9 percent in February from a year earlier with comparable figures for January standing at 2 percent. The Bank of Korea [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that SK Holdings C&C Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Park Jung-ho has been appointed as the new President and CEO of SK Telecom. Since joining Sunkyong Group (which is now SK Holdings) in 1989, Park has served various key positions within the SK Group. From [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO and CHICAGO, ILLINOIS and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM and HONG KONG, CHINA, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – BMO Global Asset Management today released its annual Five-Year Outlook report, which examines the long-term impact of several themes shaping the global economy and markets. It considers a number of likely scenarios and the investment opportunities they [...]
Geneva, Paris, Brussels, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Mr. Nam-gi Baek, the farmer activist who was left in a coma after being pummelled by water cannons at a demonstration in Seoul on 14 November 2015, succumbed to his injuries and died of kidney failure on Sunday, 25 September 2016. FIDH, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), [...]
Event to Feature Over 14 Hours of Training, Educational Content and Collaboration AUSTIN, TX, Sep. 8 (Korea Bizwire) - SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced its fifth edition of THWACKcamp is scheduled for September 14-15, 2016. THWACKcamp is SolarWinds’ free annual virtual IT event hosted on the company’s online community [...]
Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that it has published ‘ATSCALE White Paper’ to suggest the direction for evolution of the next-generation telecommunications networks including the 5G network. In this white paper, SK Telecom describes in detail its ATSCALE vision and architecture, based on which it will realize [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The controversial anti-graft law received a “green light” for full implementation after the Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that its various clauses do not conflict with the country’s highest legal principles. The so-called Kim Young-ran law, named after its proposer, prohibits civil servants, journalists and those hired by private schools [...]
HONG KONG, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The 27th Hong Kong Book Fair ended today, after drawing record attendance of close to 1.02 million visitors. The week-long literary and cultural extravaganza, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, featured an extensive selection of [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of Samsung Group shares owned by South Korea’s state pension fund jumped to 24.2 trillion won (US$21.2 billion) in the first half of the year, reaching a quarter of its total investment in the local stock market, data showed Wednesday. The National Pension Service (NPS), which manages [...]
SEJONG, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Microdata refers to information from a basic original database that’s created based on statistics and analytical studies, for which input errors and invalid data have been corrected to offer a better user experience. According to Statistics Korea, the total usage of microdata provided by the institution from December 2015 to [...]